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Friday Face-Off: Aliens

Welcome to The Friday Face-Off, a weekly meme created by Books by Proxy! Each Friday, we will pit cover against cover while also taking the opportunity to showcase gorgeous artwork and feature some of our favorite book covers. If you want to join the fun, simply choose a book each Friday that fits that week’s predetermined theme, post and compare two or more different covers available for that book, then name your favorite. A list of future weeks’ themes are available at Lynn’s Book Blog.

This week’s theme is:

“Aliens–if they exist–are little green men with big eyes and spindly arms…or giant insects or something like a lumpy little creature”
~ a cover featuring ALIENS

For this week’s theme, I’ve decided to go with an oldie but a goodie. Sundiver is the first book of The UpliftSaga, a series featuring the central theme of “biological uplift”, a term used to describe the process of transforming a certain species into more intelligent beings by other already intelligent beings. In this universe, humanity is an anomaly – a species that apparently got to where they are with no patron race. But is this truly the case? Or did a mysterious race begin the uplift of humankind a long time ago before abandoning them? The matter is one of fierce debate.

Let’s take a look at the following selection of covers from around the world:

From left to right, top to bottom: Bantam Spectra (2010) – Little Brown and Company (1996) – Bantam (1981)

29 Comments on “Friday Face-Off: Aliens”

Oh man, those are some old-school covers! This should have been a tbt post. 😀 You know, I don’t think I know of any book with aliens on it! Do the Star Wars books count? This is an interesting prompt for this week for sure. Great choices!

The older covers look great. For some reason I’m drawn to the first one by Bantam Spectra. I think the alien has some appeal to me for some reason I can’t explain. I don’t know that I would actually pick up any on the cover alone, but if I did, that would be the one.

Oh okay!:)
I tried to read a lot of classic SF when I was in high school but not a lot were either translated in french or available at my local library!
Always nice to see there’s an infinity of books left to know about ^^

Hah, I love this selection of covers. The first cover with the alien dude – he’s all like ‘hey, how you doin?’. Then there’s the giant donut. I love the blue ET guy too. My favourite (I do like your cover because it has a simplicity that is classy) but the very last cover, the green one with all the space ships – it just has this great comic feel. I have to go for that one.
Lynn 😀

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